CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1142
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.
Affected configurations
• vmware open vm tools 2009.03.18-154848
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/264577 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/2009.03.18-154848 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory